laureling

Verb

laurel (third-person singular simple present laurels, present participle (US) laureling or (UK) laurelling, simple past and past participle (US) laureled or (UK) laurelled)

1. (transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
   • Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.2014, Cayden Carrico, A Nocturne of Echoes, →ISBN, page 32
2. (transitive) To enwreathe.
   • It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.2013, John Hornor Jacobs, The Twelve-Fingered Boy, →ISBN, page 161
3. (informal, transitive) To award top honours to.
   • In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.1866, Archibald Fergusson, The crusher' and the Cross, page 149

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